{"id":48671,"date":"2016-08-15T23:08:10","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T23:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48671"},"modified":"2016-08-15T23:08:10","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T23:08:10","slug":"japans-under-researched-visible-minorities-applying-critical-race-theory-to-racialization-dynamics-in-a-non-white-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48671","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s Under-Researched Visible Minorities: Applying Critical Race Theory to Racialization Dynamics in a Non-White Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/openscholarship.wustl.edu\/law_globalstudies\/vol14\/iss4\/13\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Japan\u2019s Under-Researched Visible Minorities: Applying Critical Race Theory to Racialization Dynamics in a Non-White Society<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/openscholarship.wustl.edu\/law_globalstudies\" target=\"_blank\">Washington University Global Studies Law Review<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/openscholarship.wustl.edu\/law_globalstudies\/vol14\/iss4\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 14, Issue 4: Global Perspectives on Colorism<\/a> (Symposium Edition) (2015)<br \/>\npages 695-723<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Debito Arudou<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Critical_race_theory\" target=\"_blank\">Critical Race Theory<\/a> (CRT), an analytical framework grounded in American legal academia, uncovers power relationships between a racialized enfranchised majority and a disenfranchised minority. Although applied primarily to countries and societies with Caucasian majorities to analyze White Privilege this Article applies CRT to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Japan\" target=\"_blank\">Japan<\/a>, a non-White majority society. After discussing how scholarship on Japan has hitherto ignored a fundamental factor within racialization studies\u2014the effects of skin color on the concept of \u201cJapaneseness\u201d\u2014this Article examines an example of published research on the Post-<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_War_II\" target=\"_blank\">WWII<\/a> \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/H%C4%81fu\" target=\"_blank\"><em>konketsuji<\/em><\/a> problem.\u201d This research finds blind spots in the analysis, and re-examines it through CRT to uncover more nuanced power dynamics. This exercise attempts to illustrate the universality of nation-state racialization processes, and advocates the expansion of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Whiteness_studies\" target=\"_blank\">Whiteness Studies <\/a>beyond Caucasian-majority societies into worldwide Colorism dynamics in general.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/openscholarship.wustl.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1552&amp;context=law_globalstudies\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan\u2019s Under-Researched Visible Minorities: Applying Critical Race Theory to Racialization Dynamics in a Non-White Society Washington University Global Studies Law Review Volume 14, Issue 4: Global Perspectives on Colorism (Symposium Edition) (2015) pages 695-723 Debito Arudou Critical Race Theory (CRT), an analytical framework grounded in American legal academia, uncovers power relationships between a racialized enfranchised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,459,1467,8,394],"tags":[240,23642,24749,24750,1793,24751],"class_list":["post-48671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-history","category-law","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","tag-colorism","tag-critical-race-theory","tag-david-christopher-schofill","tag-debito-arudou","tag-japan","tag-washington-university-global-studies-law-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48672,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48671\/revisions\/48672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}